they re going to buy our subs. only question is, before we get out of this room, how do we do a make-good for you, so you re part of this deal? you re so important to us, we want you to be part of this deal. it wasn t hard to do. the question is why, why did it happen this way? was it incompetence? there are experienced people in the state department, inside the biden administration. was it arrogance? was it taking an ally for granted, saying they ll be fine, it s france? we re always going to be close allies. we can plow forward? it just doesn t make sense that a group of experiencd diplomats would let it go down this way. i bet you wish we were talking about baseball. there has to be a make-good. they have to help macron get out of his domestic corner so this partnership can be back. again, we re moving forward together. we have a much bigger problem here. i think there is a bigger story. it s china.
be agriculture secretary south carolina from one of the biggest agricultural corporations in america. had anyone noticed, it would ve prompted questions ahead of his confirmation. but mr. perdue, the former governor of georgia, did not disclose the deal. there was no legal requirement for him to do so. an examination of public records by the washington post has found that the agricultural company in question, archer-daniels-midland sold atlanta purdue at a small fraction of his estimated value just as the company stood to benefit from a friendly secretary of agriculture. during trump s campaign, sonny perdue wasn t adviser to trump. after trump won, there was lots of public trader about what s job sonny perdue might get and the administration. it wasn t hard to narrow down the most likely choice. he was in the business of agriculture himself. secretary of agriculture seemed like a good bet. purdue spoke to the press in early december about how he was talking to trump about his
he s a councilor and the author of be strong and of good courage. ambassador ross, nice to see you. you heard this report from richard engel. the lead today in the new york times by david sanger is heartbreaking because every warning everybody had about what would happen if the united states pulled back, it seemed it all happened within days. normally we have to wait months or years for a policy impact. not in this case. look, i think the only word you can use is appalling. what we see here is a combination of things. number one, the very forces that fought and died did the brunt of the fighting and dying in terms of defeating isis but not destroying it, were the kurdish forces that are now the ones under great pressure by turkey. it was a given this was going to happen. it wasn t hard to predict.
happy again said what do you do with singing in the rain? i said it will be raining and i ll be singing. that was it. it wasn t hard to compose it. the moment of slashing the water. that part was fun. clang, clang clang went the trolley. ding ding ding went the bell. when you come along with vincent minnelli making meet me in st. louis and american in paris and the band wagon, you have such originality, such joy and such, would that stand the test of time. want to have bells that will ring you want to have songs that will sing in 195, george kook corey makes a star is born and turns it into a musical. if i don t get my way, i begin to break up people. you understand, don t you? yes, i understand.
there s a simpler part. you have a liaison office that deals with the congress. all the president has to do before he says anything is ask them to go over the congress and say what is this guy s reputation? find enemies. will we have a problem before we go down the road. it wasn t hard. all he had to do is pick up the phone. that s the other thing. on the program last night my interview with marianne if the idea that the president was surprised to hear from williamson became contentious people on capitol hill that they when it came to her views of didn t know anything about this people taking antidepressant medication. guy, you know, that s the kind of thing, again, with a few phone calls before you send out a tweet nominating somebody, you here s some of the interview. you say feds say one in ten americans on antidepressants, think there must be somebody in not a good sign, not a time for the white house that can call around to their allies on any of us to be numbing pain. capit